Thanks, Mary Sue - the Scottish Rock Garden Club takes its remit to share, support, encourage and enthuse very seriously. I would be happy to wait even seven years for T. sprengeri flowers if, at the end of the process, I had them in profusion and naturalising themselves in the garden - but , as with your experience - we have struggled to get this to happen. Perhaps it makes me delight all the more in the "penny numbers" of flowers that we have but really I am terribly envious of our friends who have copious quantities of these very elegant bulbs blooming so happily in their gardens. I try not to be jealous but I do think this is one of the nicest tulips and when it does so well elsewhere I just want to have hundreds of them. I just LOVE this flower! M